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French Tourism CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Board of Directors.

Article R411-15

…tance to the State under the conditions set out inarticle 17 of the organic law no. 2001-692 of 1st August 2001 on finance laws; 6° The general conditions for granting the financial aid mentioned in a…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Capital gains realised by individuals

Article 248 F

…re 2020, aux échanges de titres participatifs mentionnés à amended Article 1 of Law no. 86-912 of 6 August 1986, of securities mentioned in Articles 5 and 6 of the same law, of titles mentioned in art…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
1°: Capital gains realised by companies

Article 248 E

When securities, mentioned in Articles 5 and 6 of Law no. 86-912 of 6 August 1986 or the profit participation certificates referred to in amended Article 1 of the same law, appear on the balance sheet…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter X: Information for employees in the event of the sale of their company

Article L23-10-7

In companies subject to the obligation to set up a works council pursuant to article L. 2322-1 of the Labour Code and which, at the end of the last financial year, fell into the category of small and…

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French General Tax CodeIn force
2°: Contributions to a company, legal entity or grouping

Article 809

…er duties and taxes payable for valuable consideration on outright contributions made to it since 1 August 1965 by persons not subject to that tax. The duties are levied on the market value of the ass…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Payment systems and settlement and delivery systems for financial instruments

Article L752-15

…1308 of 8 October 2021 L. 330-3 Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009 L. 330-4Order no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 II.-For the application of I: 1° References to safeguard, receivership or compulsory liq…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 5: Payment systems and settlement and delivery systems for financial instruments

Article L753-15

…1308 of 8 October 2021 L. 330-3 Order no. 2009-866 of 15 July 2009 L. 330-4Order no. 2017-1252 of 9 August 2017 II.-For the application of I: 1° References to safeguard, receivership or compulsory liq…

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French General Code of Local AuthoritiesIn force
Section 6: Financial responsibility

Article R1611-37

…tioned in 1° and 2° above in accordance with the provisions of I of Article 74 of Law 2014-873 of 4 August 2014 for real equality between women and men, and of the decree no. 2015-354 of 27 March 2015…

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French Public Health CodeIn force
Subsection 2: Informing users and expressing their wishes

Article R1541-2

…le in New Caledonia and French Polynesia, in their wording resulting from Decree No. 2016-1067 of 3 August 2016, with the exception of III of Article R. 1111-18, subject to the following adaptations:1…

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French Labour CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Eligibility criteria.

Article R5423-3

…3° Family benefits; 4° The exceptional back-to-work bonus introduced by decree no. 2005-1054 of 29 August 2005 creating an exceptional back-to-work bonus for certain recipients of minimum social bene…

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